Cooperative Agreement DEEE0011051

This $12,286,600 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program supports a nationwide collaboration between industry and academia to pioneer an industrial-scale demonstration of alternative injectant refining and electromagnetic stirring (EMS) electric arc furnace (EAF) operation in the U.S. The project aims to enable complete decarbonization of the EAF...

General Electric Company's GE Additive division was awarded a $1,466,390 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to develop a novel additive manufacturing process for fabricating silicon carbide matrix composite heat exchangers. The objective is to utilize an advanced additive manufacturing machine and method to fabricate complex silicon carbide components and incorporate chopped fibers to enable composite properties for applications...

The Department of Energy awarded a $30,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to Boston Electrometallurgical Corp (doing business as Boston Metal) for a project titled "BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW (BIL) - CHAMPION: CHROMIUM ATR METALLURGY WITH PLASMA MELTING AND HOT ISOSTATIC PRESSING OF NEAR-NET-SHAPE HIGH-TEMPERATURE ALLOY PARTS". The project will focus on developing domestic...

The Department of Energy awarded a $75,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the American Cast Iron Pipe Company (AMERICAN) to retrofit its Birmingham, Alabama facility. The project will install four 35-MT 20.8-MW electric induction melting furnaces and three 165-MT 2-MW electric induction holding furnaces to produce ductile iron pipe (DIP) without the use of foundry coke. This will enable a shift towards low-carbon production methods, reduce emissions, and expand scrap metal options. The project...

This $2,600,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) supports Collaborative Composite Solutions Corporation (CCS), a non-profit organization, in developing large-scale 3D printed steel tools for molding lightweight automotive composite components. The 1-year project aims to advance additive manufacturing and composite materials innovations to enable low-cost, high-rate production of durable and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) provides $44,714,384 to Golden Aluminum Inc. to demonstrate an innovative aluminum mini mill process known as "NexCast" at their facility in Fort Lupton, Colorado. The project aims to produce flat-rolled, low-carbon aluminum products that are comparable in quality to market standards for automotive and packaging customers, while increasing scrap usage...

This $500,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) will support the retrofit of Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corporation's Middletown Works facility in Ohio. The project aims to replace the existing blast furnace with a 100% hydrogen-ready, flex-fuel direct reduced iron (DRI) production system and two electric melting furnaces. This demonstration project will validate a feasible pathway to significantly reduce greenhouse...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $199,645 to Georgia Southern University Research & Service Foundation Inc. to conduct fundamental research on understanding porosity formation in ductile iron castings. The research aims to correlate porosity to graphitization and casting wall movement through experiments and numerical simulations. Key activities include developing an apparatus for in-situ measurement of casting...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $75,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corporation to construct four new induction reheat furnaces (IRFs) for the high-temperature production of high-silicon grain oriented electrical steel (GOES) at its Lyndora, PA facility. This project will upgrade the existing steel slab reheating process to an electrified system, enabling the company to idle two existing natural...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) aims to demonstrate the accelerated discovery, design, and laser convergent manufacturing of low-temperature (< 650°C) oxygen-conducting solid oxide electrolyzer cells (LT-O-SOEC) with a minimum active area > 15 cm2. The technical target is to achieve ≥ 1.2 A/cm2 at 1.3 V/cell with ≤ 3...